FreeConferenceCall's Blog just got a little more exciting! Every month, we are going to highlight a new customer who is using our services in an innovative way to create an innovative solution for your business, family or community. We are unveiling this on the blog because this is what we know at FreeConferenceCall.com: it is you the customer who is driving innovation with your needs. We want to highlight your innovation to create solutions.
Take for example, Steve Montignani;
There's an old saying you've probably heard “ Two things you don't want to see made are laws and sausages". Well, I'd like to add a third to that: phone calls.
Most people think that once you pay for phone service, you just press send and talk. From the perspective of the consumer that's pretty much true, but your phone call has a more complicated journey ahead of it. Depending on where and when you're calling, your call could pass through your phone company, a middle-mile carrier, a local exchange carrier and maybe even a major wireless company before reaching your friend Sally's cell phone. All of those companies in the middle get paid. Not by you directly you pay your carrier for access, your carrier pays all the other companies along the way for the usage (AKA access in telco speak).
Free conference call companies are rallying customers to urge lawmakers and the FCC to not stifle their ability to continue using free conference call services. We let people know to contact their representatives in Congress that they use the service and don't want it to go away, FreeConference.com Chief Financial Officer Mike Placido said in an interview.
The commission continues to get comments on a 2007 rulemaking notice concerning just and reasonable rates for terminating access charges by competitive local exchange carriers mainly located in rural areas. Bells have accused rural LECs of traffic pumping, and urged lawmakers and the FCC to look into ending the practice. The House Commerce Committee has collected information from CLECS and interexchange carriers to begin its inquiry (CD Feb 18 p 1).
A conference call provider and a Native American-owned telco are meeting with FCC officials this week in an effort to convince the agency that it does not have to alter the current access charge regime to encourage broadband service expansion to unserved areas.
Officials with FreeConferenceCall.com and Native American Telecom, LLC argue that the existing fee system can encourage economic development on tribal lands and other rural areas because the money such carriers make from traffic terminating on their networks allows them to invest in infrastructure that they otherwise couldn't afford.
UNLIMITED CALLING PLANS CAUSE LARGE TELCOS TO DISCOURAGE CALLS, CONFERENCE PROVIDER SAYS
The nation's largest telcos are trying to dictate to their customers who they can call when they protest calls to free conferencing and other voice services that largely contract with rural incumbent local exchange carriers to provide their offerings, the president of FreeConferenceCall.com said today.
Dave Erickson's Statement Regarding the Granting of a Temporary Restraining Order which Prevents the Iowa Utilities Board from Seizing Phone Numbers from a Local Carrier.
Learn more about it by reading this Ex Parte letter filed with the FCC.